Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for adduser

2003-10-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Almost all languages are easy to write badly. But some are easier than others. Both C++ and Perl come to my mind when I think of bad programming practices and swiss army chainsaws. Bob pgppvqBwloD23.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Public service announcement about Policy 10.4

2005-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
intentionally sources the user's ~/.cshrc file so as to report user aliases. The Debian which is really a completely different command. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: version numbering

2005-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
oaded as 7.3.3 instead. The epoc is designed to handle this problem and allows 1:0.7.3.3 to be later than 7.3.3 to fix that situation. But that is not the case here and the epoc can be avoided. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
can remove leaving configuration files or you can purge taking off the configuration files too. I think you are asking for a new type of install target where a package is only partially installed. I could see the utility of that but there is no support for it in the code at this moment. Bob si

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-31 Thread Bob Proulx
mail MTAs installed. It is the same problem as being discussed with imapd. This mechanism could be used there too. An alternative is the xdm/gdm/kdm way of coordinating between the packages. That works too. It could be enough to have packages that listen on a port coordinate with each other.

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
range of (avoding the name here) in Google so that when they search for it that Google actually points them to the right place. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
h. And at least someone will contrive an example that matches but is otherwise valid and complain about it. Perhaps we should call upon everyone who reads Debian lists to, as their sacred duty, blog somewhere at least three hits to the upstream sites as a way to artifically promote them higher? :-/ (

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread Bob Proulx
his message to avoid getting spam. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-26 Thread Bob Proulx
ers when they are installed. > Perhaps we finally get to the conclusion that it doesn't belong there. > :) Let's hope so. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#338382: ITP: python-formencode -- FormEncode is a validation and form generation package.

2005-11-09 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-formencode Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://formencode.sf.net * License : PSF Description : For

Bug#338571: ITP: python-pylib -- python unit testing framework

2005-11-10 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pylib Version : 20051109 Upstream Author : Holger Krekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/test.html * License : Copyright

Bug#338676: ITP: python-turbogears -- front-to-back rapid web development

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-turbogears Version : 0.8a3 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/ * License : http://www.opensource.org/

Bug#338692: ITP: python-pyprotocols -- Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pyprotocols Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> * URL : http://peak.telecommunity.com/PyProtocols.html * License

Bug#338698: ITP: python-ruledispatch -- Rule-based Dispatching and Generic Functions

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-ruledispatch Version : 0.5a0dev Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/download/eggs/RuleDispatch-0.5a0d

Bug#338701: ITP: python-testgears -- TestGears extensions to unittest

2005-11-11 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-testgears Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Kevin Dangoor * URL : http://www.turbogears.org/testgears/ * License : http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-licen

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-21 Thread Bob Proulx
t not ultimately enabled to break things. Sure they can try a social engineering attack against root to break in but I try to avoid working with such antisocial people. The 'staff' group is a useful shade of grey that lives between the black and the white. I think it would be bad to overl

Re: bind runs apt-cache during shutdown????

2010-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
init.d/bind9 script does not call 'lsb_release' and therefore this issue seems to have been addressed in the latest Squeeze. Bob P.S. On my 2004 1.8GHz Pentium M laptop: $ time lsb_release -is Debian real0m0.135s user0m0.116s sys 0m0.016s signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
cribe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had done. And once I realized that it did that I resolved not to use such packages. If they would do that then what other nasty business would they include that I didn't find?) Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Trying to install Oracle9i R2 on

2011-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
nothing and die after some time. You should remove the symlink. Then install the package. > I'm new with Debian. Would to help me? For future help the debian-u...@lists.debian.org mailing list would be a better place to ask these types of questions. Please ask future questions ab

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-02 Thread Bob Proulx
L: ... No need to install postfix since it is already installed. ... # service sendmail stop # chkconfig --del sendmail # alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix # checkconfig postfix on # service postfix start Example for setting up Postfix on Debian: # apt-get install postfix Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
he timestamps of the files for when the patch was made and remove the build depends on automake. Although the previous discussion made good arguments both directions. I believe either of the methods are good as long as you champion the process to completion. Bob pgpEOgit0lNED.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
ul. touch --no-create configure.ac \ && touch --no-create aclocal.m4 \ && touch --no-create configure \ && touch --no-create config.h.in \ && touch --no-create $(find . -name Makefile.in) Bob pgpw2HbJuTrYW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#215556: ITP: gsysutils -- Set of utilities useful to system administrators

2003-10-16 Thread Bob Proulx
27;t claim that is common conception. > > > Well, I can back that up. A Gnome association swept to the surface of > my mind when I read the package name, too, If you are asking for votes then I as well prefer something other than gsysutils and gnu-sysutils seems appropriate. Bob

Re: Bug#215556: ITP: gsysutils -- Set of utilities useful to system administrators

2003-10-18 Thread Bob Proulx
to it. They are aliases to the same program providing different names. ln -s fromdos $(tempdir)/$(package)/usr/bin/todos ln -s fromdos $(tempdir)/$(package)/usr/bin/dos2unix ln -s fromdos $(tempdir)/$(package)/usr/bin/unix2dos Bob

Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
ways to plan ahead then the version would go away without either. In general this is only a problem when people forget to plan ahead. Bob pgpvnVyjtPXgo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /tmp/root ???

2002-12-04 Thread Bob Proulx
ot turn up anything at all. But it is worth a try. cd /var/lib/dpkg/info grep /tmp/root * That is where the post install scripts reside. Perhaps one of the packages you installed has a post install script which created that. A shot in the dark. Bob pgpOo9MsqLG38.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread bob parker
tion rather than "expert" mode. After an easy mode installation it takes a wet week to do anything at all (on a Pentium 233 box). The same distro on the same box is quite quick after a so called expert mode install. Bob

Problems with XFS patch and SMP

2002-12-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
eporter is running a 2.4.19 kernel with the XFS patch and SMP support. Are there any known issues with the XFS patch and SMP support that could contribute to this problem? Is anyone running dictd with a 2.4.19 kernel with the XFS patch and SMP support? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_

Problems with XFS patch and SMP

2002-12-10 Thread Bob Hilliard
installed. This will be fixed. Especial thanks to Craig for installing dictd on a machine with a 2.4.19 kernel with XFS and SMP for testing. This can be removed whenever you like. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 12

Re: Some questions about Debian developers

2003-04-12 Thread Bob Proulx
quot;specs" that define which package can get from > testing to unstable to stable? http://www.debian.org/devel/testing You can find that link by going to the main Debian site and seeing "Developers's Corner" and following that to work in progress section where you find "The testing distribution". Good luck with your project! Bob pgpljWjv41dOb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why is only the latest unstable package considered for testing?

2003-04-13 Thread Bob Proulx
ebian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200302/msg00302.html Bob pgpvrjx8vcuwF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why is only the latest unstable package considered for testing?

2003-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Bjorn Stenberg wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Just minor searching through the archive turned these up with relevent > > discussion. > > These posts, as your reply in debian-testing, concern packages that are not > Valid Candidates. But they did concern how testing ope

Re: Why is only the latest unstable package considered for testing?

2003-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
o accomplish what you suggest one would need to manually build on all of the Debian supported architectures using testing or stable and then upload the binary builds for all architectures. And there may be other gotchas too. Bob pgpt9DAnGJQvX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: libc6 (security) update does not restart system-services?

2003-04-19 Thread Bob Proulx
ages > like "setting dtime of deleted inode" on fsck. Except for the uptime wars (2 years 2 weeks!, between power outs here) I generally reboot servers monthly. This has the added benefit that it also ensures that the servers will boot cleanly and an admin has not broken something with a manual tweak. Bob pgpSFjTrHWZtw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: libc6 (security) update does not restart system-services?

2003-04-21 Thread Bob Proulx
them bound to libc. Of the difficult ones to restart automatically almost certainly every user shell and every ssh session would be attached. Those would need to be killed which cannot be done automatically. Bob pgpxXmTZ5FXCE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
y unacceptable. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559

Re: Questions regarding utf-8

2003-05-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
g. the Euro-Symbol with "EUR". Without //TRANSLIT, iconv fails if DST-ENCODING is US or ASCII, but with //TRANSLIT, all characters that aren't included in ASCII are rendered as `?'. This useful, but not as useful as the conversions performed by recode. Where

Re: Questions regarding utf-8

2003-05-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
; »§« (I do not think there is one), it would be nice if iconv's > exit-status reflected whether questionmarks were used, but changing > this would probably break existing software. I agree oe is much better than "o, but I can't get that: bob:vc-p2:bob>echo ö§ | iconv

rdate can't connect socket

2001-09-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
connect socket: Connection refused This message returns almost instantly - too quickly, I believe, to be a connection refused at the remote server. Can this be a socket on my machine that refuses a connection? I have rdate 1.3-3. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard

Re: rdate can't connect socket

2001-09-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16/09, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > | This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past > | week or two it returns: > | rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused > | > | This message ret

Re: BSP?

2002-04-02 Thread Bob Hilliard
s many Debian-specific terms. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559

Re: BSP?

2002-04-02 Thread Bob Hilliard
he Debian package. If you submit proposed new definitions to me, I will add them to the Debian package. Acronyms without a separate definition would go into vera, while terms with definitions, and acronyms for these terms, go into foldoc. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard

Re: Packages still in Potato

2002-04-10 Thread Bob Hilliard
e woody release if it is necessary to do so. Please let me know it this is required. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:52:53PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:32, Michael Piefel wrote: > > The Crash > > Well, simply, it was the wrong kernel. The guide recommends to install > > a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} > > However, the s

Bug#751570: ITP: openbugs -- BUGS for Bayesian MCMC analysis.

2014-06-14 Thread Bob Dybian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Dybian * Package name: openbugs Version : 3.2.3 * URL : http://www.openbugs.net/ * License : (GPL 3) Programming Lang: (Component Pascal and C) Description : BUGS for Bayesian MCMC analysis. I create a package

Re: Solutions for the Apache upgrade hell

2014-07-14 Thread Bob Proulx
atus -sPackage -n -FStatus "deinstall ok config-files") Don't forget about the "deborphan" and "orphaner" packages either. Bob P.S. AWK is design to operate by fields. I am sure I am not the only one who saw the "if $2" above and thought it should be like this: awk '$2=="deinstall"{print$1}' signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#755522: ITP: r-cran-beeswarm -- The bee swarm plot is a one-dimensional scatter plot like "stripchart", but with closely-packed, non-overlapping points.

2014-07-21 Thread Bob Dybian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Dybian * Package name: r-cran-beeswarm Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : Aron Charles Eklund * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/beeswarm * License : Artistic-2.0 Programming Lang: R Description

Bug#758178: general: screen resolution reverts to minimum when not selected by KVM

2014-08-14 Thread Bob Michael
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I have 3 or 4 debian machines attached to a Zonet KVM3304 4 port KVM switch. I usually keep at least 2 of them on most of the time. Thus

Re: calling maintainer scripts with a clean environment?

2014-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
us from having them because humans are clever and will find a way to do what we want anyway. It simply makes it more painful for us to have them. Therefore I think if an admin sets up a custom environment that this environment should be used. Or at least not actively prevented from being used. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-15 Thread Bob Proulx
apt-cache show nvi Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-15 Thread Bob Proulx
James McCoy wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > James McCoy wrote: > > > I keep contemplating packaging ex-vi and advocating to replace vim-tiny > > > with that. After all, the intent is to have something providing > > > /usr/bin/vi, as one expects to have

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-17 Thread Bob Proulx
those unrepresented people! Here is an actual live production policy-rc.d from a system where the web server is being run inside of a chroot. I think the intention is obvious. Is there any other way to accomplish this other than using the policy-rc.d? Trying to manage the startup with update-r

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Russ Allbery wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Maybe I am missing a better alternative? > > update-rc.d disable No. That is too late. By the time you are disabling something it has already been installed and started in postinst scripts. Using policy-rc.d is the only way to

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-07 Thread Bob Proulx
is in /bin/ip and always available in PATH. It is the currently recommended swiss-army chainsaw network tool. Give it a try. $ ip addr show Or: $ ip addr show eth0 And of course you can add the sbins to your PATH in .profile so that you have what you want always. (I always add the sbin&#

Re: Renaming packages: maintscripts

2012-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
27;rm -f' since it avoids the query. Since I don't think that will ever produce a bad result. (Is there ever a bad result case?) Of course if there is a plan to move the /var/lib/dpkg/info path elsewhere then the path should be obtained dynamically and properly quoted. But is that ever really a potential possibility? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Bob Proulx
things were changed to force users to create a dummy top level page and enable the server then it would add additional required work over what is done now. > The RedHat assumptions on this issue make me as unhappy as the Debian > ones appear to make you unhappy. I suggest that this is jus

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > > for jessie. > > How about setting default umask for users (uid >= 1000) to 002? +1. It would be a useful default. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-25 Thread Bob Proulx
r others to use)" does that mean this will count as a vote toward having systemd as a default? If I respond that "I don't want systemd in Debian (as a default)" will that count as a vote that systemd should not be available in Debian as an option for others? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: default MTA

2013-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
#x27;re > running a non-desktop system (by this I take it to mean that you're not > using a GUI), why would you worry about GNOME's dependencies anyhow? Here is an example: The emacs24-nox package, a typical headless server package for many of us, depends upon dbus. Feature creep. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-07-02 Thread Bob Proulx
nd be done with it. That is still the way I do things on servers. But on servers I don't install resolvconf. However on mobile devices that roam from network to network resolvconf rocks! Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Bob Tracy
driver, mention is made of the fact XAA support went bye-bye, and the attempted use of EXA causes looping segfaults on X server startup. Only current workaround is to disable acceleration. Truly a case of "bad breath is better than no breath". --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-28 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:32:05AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 10:16 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Julien Cristau > > > wrote: > > > &g

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Luca Capello wrote: > I disagree on that, according to popcon we have 19.27% of users has > postfix installed, which could mean that ~90% of users has an MTA > installed. Doesn't popcon itself send reports by email? Meaning that 100% of all reports from popcon have an MTA i

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Doesn't popcon itself send reports by email? Meaning that 100% of all > > reports from popcon have an MTA installed? > > No, popcon can also report through HTTP. Ah... Very good. I stand corrected. And what's m

Bug#645723: general: asks for root password instead of user password

2011-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
tion. If sudo is to be used then of course sudo itself needs to be configured and working too. Again the debian-installer does this automatically if only a user password is given at install time. Hope this helps, Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is anyone maintaining (the ham radio tool) node?

2011-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
have to type in "some-specific-name-to-some-program" either. The balance in the middle isn't trivial. Bob cul es 73 de kf0uw signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script?

2011-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Ian Jackson wrote: > (b) ask on info-gnu. Just fyi for the future but info-gnu isn't the place to ask questions. It is for official GNU announcements only, no follow-ups, no discussions. Discussions should happen on other lists. Bob -- Wearing my info-gnu moderator hat. signa

Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script? [and 1 more messages]

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Ian Jackson wrote: > Bob Proulx writes ("Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script?"): > > Ian Jackson wrote: > > > (b) ask on info-gnu. > > > > Just fyi for the future but info-gnu isn't the place to ask questions. > > It is for

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Bob Proulx
esize2fs, and probably most file > systems. Online shrinking is a very rare feature. Even when offline it is not univerial to have shrinking available. For example xfs does not provide a way to shrink a filesystem either online or offline. A sorely missed feature in an otherwise excelle

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Bob Proulx
h is of course what it would show) then how would having this data help or hinder either side? I will be one of the disenfranchised if /usr is deprecated. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian should move away from MD5 (and at best also from SHA1) (in secure APT and friends)

2012-10-11 Thread Bob Proulx
corruption it > ussually screws up more than the files covered by the md5sums. The use case for debsums is for *detection* of corruption. And neither is it a security mechanism. But it is a useful integrity check mechanism. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Graphic card installation problem

2013-02-19 Thread Bob Proulx
r usage question and so should go to the users mailing list not the development mailing list. For support in your problem I would start here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUsersListFAQ Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Bob Proulx
the doesn't build twice problem. > > > > And/or on the technical side, make the buildds always build twice. > > Sounds like a waste of resources. Not every architecture needs to build twice. If only the fastest building architecture built twice it would catch almost all of the problems with no change in resources elsewhere. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
to making this easy for users to do. They could then simple follow recipies to good practices. Without good clear documentation they will be left to their own and will do what is easiest. http://wiki.debian.org/PHP Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#746208: ITP: r-cran-ape -- GNU R package for Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

2014-04-27 Thread Bob Dybian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bob Dybian * Package name: r-cran-ape Version : 3.1-1 * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ape/index.html * License : (GPL-2+) Description : GNU R package for Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution I am

Re: oldstable-security signing key

2011-03-26 Thread Bob Proulx
problem yesterday. Thank you for working to fix it. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
hreads.html The web mail archive doesn't thread across months. Here are continuing months of discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2010-12/threads.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2011-01/threads.html Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Bob Proulx writes: > > > > Maybe I am missing a better alternative? > > > > > > update-rc.d disable > > > > No. That is too late. By the time you are disabling something it has &

Re: Using USB serial device with a cdc-acm driver

2014-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
ok at? I want to turn this process off. Look in /var/log/syslog and hopefully something will be logged there. Look in 'ps -ef' and see if anything is shown associated with the tty device. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: httpredir.debian.org, your mirrors redirector

2015-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Joachim Breitner wrote: > schrieb Raphael Geissert: > > infrastructure under the name of httpredir.debian.org. > > will http.debian.net continue to work? Or better yet could http.debian.org be set up to work too? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GNU IceCat?

2015-09-08 Thread Bob Holtzman
> Ah, that's a good set of default settings. Perhaps a modified > settings.js and an explanation of how to use it could be included with > the iceweasel package? +1 > > Also, what advantages does IceCat have over the Tor Browser? (Debian > doesn't have the Tor Browser either, due to the impossibility of long > term maintenance, but just wondering.) Have a look at torbrowser-launcher in synaptic -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: mirror-2.9 released, and hopefully DFSG compliant

1998-06-03 Thread Bob Hilliard
that are not included in 2.9. Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob> I would like to see this feature continued if it isn't in 2.9-1 > Bob> by default. > > Note that the license currently states that distributing modified versions of > mirro

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
ral days and missed any announcements. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
0.33 package are added. I don't have a FAT32 system to check it, but there are several FAT32 references in the files in fs/fat/* which lead me to conclude that it probably is there (maybe in a different form than the patches). As usual, the documentation lags the code, of course. Bob

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Bob Hilliard
will be unavailable for several weeks during the summer. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

dict-foldoc-19980612 removed from Incoming

1998-06-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Incoming, and will upload it again after I figure out and fix whatever errors I made in preparing the package. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
t be written until we know exactly where on the disk autoup.sh is located, and path to the hamm files. If Igor wanted to incorporate the autoup.sh README in install.txt, that would eliminate the need to include it as a separate file on the CD Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There is a README for autoup.sh on > > {ftp|http}://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/. > > > > Both the README and autoup.sh should have a separate (simplified) >

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > > Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I will be out of town after tomorrow for about a week, so I won't > > be able to do anything on the README before then, but I don't think > > 2.0 will b

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
e files. Likewise 2.0.7pre4, however diff shows they are identical. I'm not sure how well diff works with binaries however. The files have identical sizes. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Where did you get a pre4? I don't think I released one... Oops, I meant pre1-4. Sorry about that. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PRO

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
dselect works, however. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
gt; I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :) > > I thought 2.2 was going to be "rc", and 3.0 would be "woody". Johnnie > Ingram was pushing for that one, as were a few others. But didn't an even earlier discussion conclude that "woody" should be bypassed as it would be offensive to some people. Bob

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
> The namespase lasts for five more releases. Or do I misunderstand > something? That's from the credits, but there are some more : r.c. (mentioned previously) molly snake robot etch mike mr. spell lenny claw There were a few others, but I couldn't pick out the names from the soundtrack. Bob

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:57:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I had to deal with this idiocy back in the eighties when I was building > > computers which may have qualified as 'munitions'. > > And remember that books are the purest form of evil

Corporate Visibility for Linux

1998-10-15 Thread Bob Hilliard
rprises, Inc. and Boeing Co. discourage use of freeware, although some allow special use. Some fear viruses. The City of Garden Grove, Calif. has used a Linux-based network since 1995. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
ged. > > This is obviously a problem, since I'm currently using pgp2.62ui which can't > verify pgp 5 keys. What is the status of gnupg? Is there a Debian package available? It is shown as 'recommended' by debian-keyring, but doesn't seem to exist. Bob Bo

dupload problem

1999-01-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
=> "/home/Debian/ftp/private/project/Incoming/", mailto => "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", # stable, contrib, non-free mailtx => "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", # unstable, exper. visibleuser => "hilliard", visiblename => "deb

Missing packages files

1999-01-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
It seems that all the hamm and slink packages files, as well as those for contrib and non-free (but not main) in potato are currently missing on three mirrors I have checked today. Agggh! Bob

Re: Missing packages files

1999-01-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
Well, I have ldd also, but don't see the connection. ??? Bob On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Paul McDermott wrote: > here is what i get when doing a dpkg -S ldd > [paul:~]$ dpkg -S ldd > ldso: /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz > ldso: /usr/bin/ldd > tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public

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